The title sounds okay to me, though it would be a little ambiguous on who's forgetting the birthday. Though if this trope were to be renamed, I would choose Forgotten Birthday Suspicion. The title suggested by the OP sounds like it could be ambiguous on who didn't forget the birthday.

According to the header, this trope is "people pretend to forget a birthday to secretly plan a surprise party". However, many of the examples simply are "somebody's birthday is forgotten".

That's clearly two different tropes. So I suggest that we restrict this trope to "a birthday is really forgotten" (which many examples already match) and YKTTW a new trope for "not really forgotten, here's the surprise party".

If I remember correctly, you must prove that the name's causing trouble by listing the examples that either does the correct meaning or gets something else because they thought the trope meant something different due to the ambiguous name.

I doubt you can just suggest a name change like what you did.

For example, Springtime for Hitler ALSO has an ambiguous name, but the times it had been on the Trope Repair shop, the others consider it to NOT have misuse beyond what the trope meant, so the name stayed (and if I remember correctly, this is one of the oldest tropes listed on this site)

And, in case you didn't notice, I don't think that there is significant distinction between a Birthday and an Anniversary for the above Tropes. (EDIT: The "Surprise Anniversay Party" scenario is listed as one of five scenarios on that page. So merge One-Person Birthday Party into Forgotten Anniversary and then rename?)

—>having Forgotten Birthday subverted when the surprise party is postponed and never actually ends up happening so you really do think everyone forgot you (because the host was too busy turning evil because of a virus and blackmailing and verbally tearing apart everyone he cares about),

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: Runs the whole gammit in one episode: Rabbit thinks that the correct Trope is in play. He then gets depressed when he finds out it's not, leading to him thinking it's the other Trope, when in reality, Pooh just messed up the calendar, i.e. it wasn't Rabbit's Birthday at all!

The Steve Harvey Show: Neither Trope; it's more like Upstaged Birthday. (In this case, one of his hosts was pregnant and another was proposed to. So they honestly remembered, and it's not a surprise, but the other things they were celebrating were, at least to the Birthday Boy.)

EDIT: And one more non-random wick (due to it being referenced on so many namespaces within the work):

Echo Chamber: BOTH Tropes under discussion are Referenced as "Forgotten Birthday". (Specific Episode is Season 2, Episode 6; time mark of the reference is at 1:39.) Also, the Episode itself plays out like "Honestly Forgot", but I, for one, am unsure whether Tom (In Character) was planning something or not. Plus, the Laconic for that episode heavily implies the "merely Forgot" one.

The Echo Chamber example alone indicates significant potential for misuse because it's an internal production to TV Tropes, thereby reflecting the opinion of a significant Vocal Minority of the site!

Vote up names you like, vote down names you don't. Whether or not the title will actually be changed is determined with a different kind of crowner (the Single Proposition crowner). This one just collects and ranks alternative titles.

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